id: 142560 accession number: 1966.30 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.30 updated: 2023-08-23 22:05:09.486000 Standing Buddha, c. 900. India, Kashmir. Brass with silver and copper inlay; overall: 98.1 cm (38 5/8 in.); base: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1966.30 title: Standing Buddha title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 900 creation date earliest: 895 creation date latest: 905 current location: 237 Himalayan creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Kashmir technique: brass with silver and copper inlay department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 98.1 cm (38 5/8 in.); Base: 28.2 cm (11 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed with the name of the monk who commissioned it: Lhatsun Nagaraja (active from c. 998 to 1026) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Art of Tibet opening date: 1969-04-10T05:00:00 The Art of Tibet. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (April 10-June 8, 1969); Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (July 1-August 30, 1969); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (October 1-November 15, 1969). title: Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style opening date: 2001-04-24T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 24-June 24, 2001). title: Arts of Kashmir opening date: 2007-10-21T00:00:00 Arts of Kashmir. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 3, 2007-January 6, 2008). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Dieux et démons de l'Himâlaya : art du bouddhisme lamaïque. Grand-Palais, Paris, France (March 25–June 27, 1977); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (August 5–October 16, 1977). * Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (March 4-May 20, 1984); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (June 30–August 26, 1984); The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (November 1, 1984–February 10, 1985). * Wisdom and compassion : the sacred art of Tibet. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (April 17–August 18, 1991); IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY (October 15–December 28, 91); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (September 18–December 13, 1992). --- PROVENANCE (J.J. Klejman [1906–1995], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: He grasps the end of his robe in his left hand. digital description: wall description: The Tibetan inscription on the pedestal identifies the owner of this stunning image as Nagaraja, a royal monk from western Tibet who was instrumental in revitalizing Buddhism in this region. Sculptures like this were the stylistic source for subsequent artistic traditions in western Tibet. The wear on the sculpture's face indicates that it was actively worshipped in Kashmir for some time before it was brought to Tibet.

The slender athletic form of the body is clearly revealed. Vestiges of pleat lines that can be traced to the toga-like robes of Greco-Roman figurines—brought centuries earlier to the Indus River region—appear like stylized waves over the torso. The areas of articulation along the borders and hems convey a sense of energy emitting from the figure. His expression is serene, with silver and copper used to animate the face. His upraised right hand indicates that his teachings lead to the freedom from all fear. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 232 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n256 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Reproduced: p. 35; Mentioned: p. 63-64 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 7, 1966, pp. 181–284. page number: Reproduced: no. 156, p. 251; Mentioned: no. 156, p. 284 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152110 “Art – The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Golden Show.” Newsweek (September 12, 1966). page number: Reproduced: p. 102 url: "Cleveland museum of art golden anniversary." Archaeology, October 1966, vol. 19, pp. 277-283. page number: p. 279 url: Burton, Richard. “Fifty Years of the Cleveland Museum of Art: Some Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.” The Connoisseur, vol 163:656 (October 1966) pp. 128-135. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 134 url: “'Golden Anniversary' Acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 108, no. 764, 1966, pp. 574–579. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 48, p. 576 url: www.jstor.org/stable/875138 Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: pl. 34 url: “Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1966.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 21, 1967, pp. 75–103. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 79, fig. 15 url: www.jstor.org/stable/20110997 Lee, Sherman E. “Clothed in the Sun: A Buddha and a Surya from Kashmir.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 2, 1967, pp. 42–63. page number: Reproduced: pp. 42, 45, fig. 3 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152142 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 232 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n256 Fricke, Berthold. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 90 url: Pal, Pratapaditya. Bronzes of Kashmir. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1975. page number: no. 26, pp. 39, 100 url: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Réunion des musées nationaux (France), and Haus der Kunst München. Dieux et démons de l'Himâlaya: art du bouddhisme lamaïque : [exposition], Grand-Palais, 25 mars-27 juin 1977. Paris: Secrétariat d'État à la culture, Éditions des musées nationaux, 1977. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 36, p. 90 url: Archeologie, no. 107 (June 1977), p. 40 page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 294 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n314 Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., and Maximilian Klimburg. The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes. Los Angeles, CA: Published under the sponsorship of the UCLA Art Council, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 103, pl. 27 url: Pal, Pratapaditya, and Robert L. Brown. Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni in Asian Art. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 114, pp. 230-231 url: Harle, J. C. The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1987. page number: Reproduced: fig. 196, p. 194 url: Pal, Pratapaditya. A Pot-Pourri of Indian Art. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 87, fig. 10 url: Czuma, Stanislaw. "A Unique Addition to the School of Kashmiri Ivories." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 8 (1988): 298-319. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 310, fig. 19 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160044 Rhie, Marylin M., and Robert A. F. Thurman. Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 4, p. 42 url: Stanislaw J. Czuma, “Some Tibetan and Tibet-Related Acquisitions of the Cleveland Museum of Art”, Oriental Art (Winter 1992/93) vol 38:4. page number: Reproduced: p. 240 url: Fussman, Gérard. “Chilas, Hatun et les Bronzes Buddhiques du Cachemere.” pp. 1-60. In Antiquities of Northern Pakistan, vol. 2. Mainz: Verlag von Zabern, 1993. page number: pp. 50-51 url: Harle, J. C. The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. page number: Reproduced: pl. 146, p. 194 url: Lee, Sherman E., and Naomi Noble Richard. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 161, p. 130 url: Rhie, Marylin M., Robert A. F. Thurman, and John Bigelow Taylor. Weisheit und Liebe: 1000 Jahre Kunst des tibetischen Buddhismus. Bonn: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1996. page number: Represent: fig. 4, p. 42 url: Reedy, Chandra L. Himalayan Bronzes: Technology, Style, and Choices. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1997. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 166, fig. K76 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 154-155 url: Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999. page number: no. 35, p. 59 url: Chuvin, Pierre, and Gilles Béguin. Les arts de l'Asie Centrale. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 246, no. 295 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 100, p. 90; Mentioned: no. 100, p. 119 url: Pal, Pratapaditya, Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinüber, and Gautamavajra Vajrācārya. Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of California Press and Mapin Pub, 2003. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 93, fig. 3 and entry 75, p. 122 url: Czuma, Stanislaw, "Great Acquisitions and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art," Orientations, An Issue in Honour of Sherman E. Lee (Jan/Feb 2005), vol. 36, no. 1. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 86 url: Phillips, Kristy. "An American Engagement with Kashmiri Art," Orientations 38, no. 7 (October 2007): pp. 63-68. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 5 url: Stoddard, Heather. Early Sino-Tibetan Art. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2008. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 30-31, fig. 16a-16b. url: Béguin, Gilles. Buddhist Art: An Historical and Cultural Journey. Bangkok: River Books, 2009. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 98, fig. 86 url: Weldon, David. "Two Bronzes from the Western Himalayas Revisited". Orientations 42, No. 5 (June 2011): pp. 65-69. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 67, fig. 1 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 82-83 url: Siudmak, John. The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences. Boston: Brill, 2013. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 476, pl. 226 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 05, September/October 2013 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 16 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-05/page/16 Wang, Michelle C. Maṇḍalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 77, fig. 24 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.30/1966.30_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.30/1966.30_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.30/1966.30_full.tif